OpenAI said that it plans to pull a speaking voice that sounds eerily similar to that of actress Scarlett Johansson from its ChatGPT service.

OpenAI announced Sunday it would pause one of the voices of ChatGPT, "Sky," which had made waves for its resemblance to Scarlett Johansson's voice.

OpenAI said in a blog post that the voice was sampled from an undisclosed actor and wasn't designed to sound like Scarlett Johansson.

OpenAI Pulls ChatGPT Voice ‘Sky’ After Users Say It Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson in ‘Her’ “Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different ...

Also, it’s totally “not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson” or her performance as the self-aware AI assistant in the 2013 sci-fi film, Her, by the way.

OpenAI paused the use of the ChatGPT voice that sounds like Scarlett Johansson amid controversy, insisting that it was not an imitation of the actress.

During the demonstration of GPT-4o an audience member noticed the striking similarity, but OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati denied that the voice was designed to sound like Johansson.